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The cruelty behind animal agriculture has been well-hidden, with food packages plastered with images of happy cows on idyllic farms and chickens roaming in wide pastures — and misleading terms like “free-range” and “humane” make us feel proud about our choices.

In recent years, however, the curtains have been slowly peeling away. The horrors that occur behind the scenes of slaughterhouses, egg farms, and circus tents are getting harder to ignore.

And now, writer-director-producer Chris Delforce brings us Dominion, an upcoming feature-length documentary that sheds light on the numerous ways animals are used by humans for food, entertainment, and clothing. It’s not just about a few “bad guys” performing illegal acts of cruelty. It’s about the standardized brutality that happens every day behind the closed doors of some of the world’s biggest industries. Using secret cameras and drones, Dominion exposes the norms that many of us simply aren’t aware of.

While Lucent focused mostly on the Australian pig farming industry, Dominion will have a much broader scope as a comprehensive account of the numerous ways animals are used and abused in Australia. By exploring six primary facets of our interaction with animals - Companion Animals, Wildlife, Scientific Research, Entertainment, Clothing and Food - the film will question the morality and validity of our dominion over the animal kingdom.

Drawing heavily from the Aussie Farms Repository so as to contain the most recent, highest-quality footage from across the country, Dominion will also make use of emerging technologies, such as aerial drones, to capture new perspectives and examine the wider context of animal exploitation upon our landscape and within our society.